| Description |
140 pages ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Pythagorean overture -- Phaedo -- Blindness -- Anaxagoras -- Socrates' second sailing -- Parmenides -- Socrates and Zeno -- Socrates' ideas -- The challenge of Parmenides -- Ideas and the one -- Symposium -- Erotic ascent -- The in-between -- The genealogy of Eros, or the philosopher -- Possession and generation -- Eros and ideas -- Phaedo -- Safety -- Soul and ideas |
| Summary |
"The Ideas of Socrates offers a unique interpretation of the ideas (forms, eide) in Plato's writings. In this study, Matthew S. Linck makes four major claims. Firstly, the ideas as Socrates discusses them in the Phaedo, Parmenides, and Symposium are shown to be integral to the person of Socrates as presented in Plato's dialogues. Socrates cannot simply be construed as the mouthpiece for a 'Platonic' theory. Secondly, Linck argues that if we take Plato's dialogues as an integrated set of writings, then we must acknowledge that the mature Socrates as portrayed in the Phaedo is perfectly aware of the difficulties entailed in the positing of ideas that are developed in the Partnenides. Thirdly, the book shows that Socrates' recourse to the ideas is not simply an epistemological issue but one of self-transformation, a teaching relayed in Socrates' speech in the Symposium. And finally Linck examines how Socrates relates to the ideas in two ways, one practical, the other speculative |
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The tension between these two ways represents a challenge for any reading of the ideas in Plato's writings."--BOOK JACKET |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [133]-137) and index |
| Subject |
Socrates.
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Plato.
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Plato. Parmenides.
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Plato. Phaedo.
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Plato. Symposium.
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Philosophy, Ancient.
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| LC no. |
2006023801 |
| ISBN |
082649451X |
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9780826494511 |
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